An Entity of Type: SpatialThing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Floating islands of Bingöl are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, eastern Turkey. The formation is a registered natural monument of the country. Lake Aksakal, which contains the floating islands, is a crater lake located in Hazarşah village of Solhan district in Bingöl Province. It is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) far from the Bingöl-Muş highway D. 300. The lake is situated on a flat terrain surrounded on three sides by mountains and hills. The lake has freshwater. The water level of the lake remains same in the winter and summer months due to continuous inflow. There are three independently and freely moving floating islands on the lake. The floating island can be moved very slowly like a raft to any direction by standing on and stepping down on one

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Floating islands of Bingöl are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, eastern Turkey. The formation is a registered natural monument of the country. Lake Aksakal, which contains the floating islands, is a crater lake located in Hazarşah village of Solhan district in Bingöl Province. It is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) far from the Bingöl-Muş highway D. 300. The lake is situated on a flat terrain surrounded on three sides by mountains and hills. The lake has freshwater. The water level of the lake remains same in the winter and summer months due to continuous inflow. There are three independently and freely moving floating islands on the lake. The floating island can be moved very slowly like a raft to any direction by standing on and stepping down on one side. There are 4-5 shrubs and ash trees on the floating islands. The soil on the floating islands is completely cohere with the prehensile roots of the vegetation. The vegetation consists of meadow grass, couch grass, and diverse aquatic plants. The area covers an area of 38.400 ha (94.89 acres). The formation was registered a natural monument in 2003. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 52912358 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4016 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1102874531 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:label
  • Floating islands (en)
dbp:labelPosition
  • right (en)
dbp:location
  • Hazarşah, Solhan, Bingöl Province, Turkey (en)
dbp:mapWidth
  • Location of Floating islands in Turkey. (en)
dbp:name
  • (Yüzen Adalar) (en)
  • Floating islands of Bingöl (en)
dbp:photo
  • Yüzen_adalar_ve_yolcular.jpg (en)
dbp:photoCaption
  • Floating islands on the Lake Aksakal in Solhan, Bingöl Province, Turkey. (en)
dbp:relief
  • yes (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 38.9724 40.9451
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Floating islands of Bingöl are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, eastern Turkey. The formation is a registered natural monument of the country. Lake Aksakal, which contains the floating islands, is a crater lake located in Hazarşah village of Solhan district in Bingöl Province. It is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) far from the Bingöl-Muş highway D. 300. The lake is situated on a flat terrain surrounded on three sides by mountains and hills. The lake has freshwater. The water level of the lake remains same in the winter and summer months due to continuous inflow. There are three independently and freely moving floating islands on the lake. The floating island can be moved very slowly like a raft to any direction by standing on and stepping down on one (en)
rdfs:label
  • Floating islands (Bingöl) (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(40.945098876953 38.972400665283)
geo:lat
  • 38.972401 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • 40.945099 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License